help is this fake was sure was real delica now not so much

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jay staley

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can anyone help me if this is real It has a few things i think are real and a few things seem fake need help i really appreciate it trying to find out before i get stuck with it
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I appreciate the responses and reassurance the guy I purchased from seemed to be legit and I didnt think he sold fakes but i recieved no box or paperwork and my coworkers concerns had me uneasy
 
jay. i can only infer my assessment from the picture (picture quality) that you're posting here. all these picture qualities point at a fake. maybe it's your camera (camera technology). maybe in RL the item looks different than pictured here. if i had your item in my hands (i.e. with no camera between me and the item), then i could tell you right away if it's a fake. first starting with the sharpness of the FRN plastic grip. but even that has been copied afaik. so the last decisive giveaway is the blade material (and the grinding). the last picture posted by you is clear (nice shot!!) and proves that yours is a fake according to my documentation. basically your jimping should have grind lines and machining marks perpendicular to the spine, similar to the PM2 example from my documentation. but yours hasn't.

i am glad that i was able to help. btw welcome on BladeForums!!
 
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My eye gets caught at the top of the jimping. That's a weird hump. The spine should be the same thickness at the 11 o'clock of the spydie hole as it is at 1 o'clock. It's clearly thinner at 11 o'clock.
Unless this has a spine straightening mod/grind. Which is very poor because it's not any straighter at the tip.
 
i retired my Delica4 for a Techno. now when i show off my knife (it's a Techno2 to be exact) to fliends or on photos everybody would know right away that it's a real. because the Techno1 was cloned not the Techno2.
 
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Ok now I think it’s fake. The sloppy and cut-too-short jimping do look fake. The branding etched on the ricasso is off. Should be more or less equidistant from the plunge and the handle line. Here the “VG-10” is almost touching the handle.

Also I think the branding is usually but not always stamped or engraved into the blade steel with a relief. This one seems to have it etched on and the etch looks a bit ragged at that. On top of being in the wrong location.

Also the FRN pattern is not correct. Look at the flat clip attachment section right under the "VG-10" stamp. Along the top of that section (in your picture) are five of those little canted boxes that make up the bi-directional pattern. All five boxes are touching that flat clip attachment spot on a real Delica. On this example the fifth box is floating away from the flat section. You can also look at the pattern of the FRN along the spine where your thumb is supposed to index on the knife. On a real Delica the boxes along the top row are almost entirely cut off on the end toward the blade, where on this example they are much bigger in that area. Picture's worth a thousand words I guess. Here's the one I've been referencing.
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The areas of the point and jimping are what jumped out at me. May I ask where you got it?
 
beattheheat said:
i looked at my Delica's,and i think it's a fake.looks like yours say's "DE LICA" ,the gap between the E and L is way off,neather one of mine has this "gap".good luck!
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I'm looking at two of mine, which were bought from an official dealer, and one has the gap exactly like the OP. The other does not. I'd guess there are slight variations from year to year.

Personally, I've not seen anything that convinces me it's a fake. It's used of course, not heavily, but not sure how old it actually is.
 
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See this area at the beginning of these "scales" on the right. The first scale, the dot in it. You can't even see it. It's like that on mine and a lot of pictures you will see on the internet. There are some newer ones like the zome delicas the pattern is a bit different but yours is still off.
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There looks too be too much spacing between the scales in this area. I think the dots inside are deeper or overall bigger compared to the rest of the cubes. Something is off and it shows in that area they are more scattered and the empty spaces are not as busy as on real ones.

There are other things wrong to me about the blade, but I chose to focus on the frn.
Go compare these points I highlighted to pictures out there and yours stands out.
Sorry man, I say it's fake.
Here I took picture of mine quickly.
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